Had I not loved thee, my sky had been clear:Had I not loved thee, I had not been here,Weeping by thee.Ask if I love thee? How else could I borrowPride from man’s slander, and strength from my sorrow?Laugh when they sneer at the fanatic’s bride,Knowing no bliss, save to toil and abideWeeping by thee.Andernach on…
Among the skeletons of robber towers:Because the ancient eyrie of his raceWas trenched and walled by busy-handed men;And all his forest-chace and woodland wild,Wherefrom he fed his young with hare and roe,Were trim with grapes which swelled from hour to hour,And tossed their golden tendrils to the sunFor joy at their own riches:-So, I thought,The…
The sport may be lost by a moment’s delay;So whip up the puppies and scurry away.Dash down through the cover by dingle and dell,There’s a gate at the bottom-I know it full well;And they’re running-they’re running,Go hark!They’re running-they’re running, Go hark!One fence and we’re out of the park;Sit down in your saddles and race at…
Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,Peering through the columns tall.Watching vainly for the flashingOf the jewelled colibris;Listening vainly for their hummingRound the honey-blossomed trees.‘Few,’ he sighed, ‘they come, and fewer,To the cocorite bowers;Murdered, madly, through the forestsWhich of yore were theirs-and oursBy there came a negro hunter,Lithe and lusty, sleek and strong,Rolling round his sparkling eyeballs,As…
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,Burst at last from winter snows.Earth with heaven above rejoices;Fields and gardens hail the spring;Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,While the wild birds build and sing.You, to whom your Maker grantedPowers to those sweet birds unknown,Use the craft by God implanted;Use the reason not your own.Here, while heaven and earth…
A harper came over the Danube so wide,And he came into Alaric’s hall,And he sang the song of the little BaltungTo him and his heroes all.How the old old Balt and the young young BaltRode out of Caucaland,With the royal elephant’s trunk on helmAnd the royal lance in hand.Thuringer heroes, counts and knights,Pricked proud in…
Which standeth in the meeting of noble valleys three-One is the vale of Gwynant, so well beloved by me,One goes to Capel-Curig, and I can’t mind its name,And one it is Llanberris Pass, which all men knows the same;Between which radiations vast mountains does arise,As full of tarns as sieves of holes, in which big…
And over him stood the Weird Lady,In her charmed castle over the sea,Sang ‘Lie thou still and dream.’‘Thy steed is dead in his stall, Earl Harold,Since thou hast been with me;The rust has eaten thy harness bright,And the rats have eaten thy greyhound light,That was so fair and free.’Mary Mother she stooped from heaven;She wakened…
When Love and all the world was young,And birds conversed as well as sung;And men still faced this fair creationWith humour, heart, imagination.Who come hither from MoroccoEvery spring on the sirocco?In russet she, and he in yellow,Singing ever clear and mellow,‘Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet you, sweet you,Did he beat you? Did he beat you?’Phyllopneustes…
And every goose a swan, lad,And every lass a queen—Then hey for boot and horse lad,And round the world away;Young blood must have its course, lad,And every dog his day.When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees are brown;And all the sport is stale, lad,And all the wheels run down—Creep home, and take…
